CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel

Why Isn’t Your Company Getting Value From AI?

In today’s episode: What’s the unspoken reason enterprise AI adoption keeps stalling? A culture consultancy ran an internal experiment pointing AI innovation at specifi

What the David Bar Controversy Teaches Leaders

In today’s episode: A viral protein bar built its success on a special ingredient, and then bought the company supplying it, cutting off every other brand in the process

Can a Mission Statement Attract Better Employees?

In today’s episode: A new CEO reveals why the mission statement he inherited was so broad it could have worked for a health clinic or a yoga studio, and what he replaced

Could Hackers Be Inside Your Company Right Now?

In today’s episode: Attackers are now living undetected inside company systems for months before striking, and most leaders have no idea just how long that window of exp

What Would You Change If the World Might End Next Year?

In today’s episode: A thought experiment about a non-zero chance the world ends next year leads to a surprisingly practical list of things worth changing right now. The

Would Your Company Survive a Major Tech Outage?

In today’s episode: A barista’s innocent apology about a “Microsoft outage” reveals just how misunderstood one of the biggest tech failures in recent memory really was.

Do Your Policies Serve the Company or the Boss?

In today’s episode: A leadership habit occurs every time work becomes harder to see, and most leaders don’t even realize they do it. Research from Stanford reveals a di

Why Hackers Target Your People First

In today’s episode: A planted USB drive labeled with a tempting personal file took less than ten minutes to get plugged into company laptops, revealing just how unsophis

Why Do the People Who Know AI Best Trust It Least?

In today’s episode: New SHRM research reveals a counterintuitive pattern: the people who understand AI best actually rely on it the least. A 5AM email from one executiv

What Happens When the AI You Rely On Goes Down?

In today’s episode: A teenage driver’s first response after a car accident points a finger at the technology itself. Database strikes in Russia reveal just how fragile

Will Your Next Boss Be an AI Agent?

In today’s episode: Managerial ranks have shrunk while the spans of control employees report to have tripled, and the strategy for handling that shift is often missing.

Should Leaders Reward Loud Workers?

In today’s episode: The new workplace trend that reveals exactly how insecure employees have become. A quote from an unexpected source perfectly explains why people fee

How to Get Buy-In for Change When Nobody Reports to You

In today’s episode: A CIO’s enterprise-wide change effort runs into an issue that has nothing to do with the technology. There’s a reframe for implementation that flips

Does Your Company Reward Sacrifice or Punish It?

In today’s episode: Companies running multiple transformation efforts at once often don’t realize they’re working against each other. A bakery’s leadership team celebra

Who Gets Fired When the AI Makes the Mistake?

In today’s episode: A viral story about Tony Robbins’ AI assistant buying him an actual robot raises a strange but serious question about AI accountability. A financial

When You Can’t See the Work, Manage the Results

In today’s episode: A fast-growing company reveals why going fully remote actually forced them to become more results driven, not less accountable. There’s a core inter

Three Questions Before Your Next Acquisition

In today's episode: A study of over 400 acquisitions reveals when past success actually makes a CEO's next big decision more dangerous. There's a simple filter one CEO

Geopolitical Risk

In today’s episode: A tariff expert predicted a major policy move two weeks before it happened, revealing a surprising strategy companies need when the rules keep changi

If You Cannot Explain Who Owns It, Do Not Automate It

In today’s episode: A general counsel went from a manageable workload to ten times the contracts overnight, and automation might be hurting more than helping. There’s a

Shackleton Created the Crisis. Why Do We Teach Him as the Hero?

In today's episode: A famous polar explorer studied in business schools everywhere turns out to have been a disaster of planning and poor decisions, while the one who ac